---
description: "Reference for Nitric's Node.js library - Store a new secret value"
---

# Node.js - secret.put()

<Note>
  This is reference documentation for the Nitric Node.js SDK. To learn about
  Secrets in Nitric start with the [Secrets docs](/secrets).
</Note>

Store a new secret value, creating a new [version](./secret-version) to store the value.

```javascript
import { secret } from '@nitric/sdk'

const keyRef = secret('apiKey').allow('put')

await keyRef.put('6c3199a3-094e-4797-bfc9-9ee2a7839286')
```

## Parameters

<Properties>
  <Property name="secret" required type="string or Uint8Array">
    The new secret value to store in the secrets manager.
  </Property>
</Properties>

### Notes

A new secret version is always created when calling `put()`, the versions will automatically be provided a unique id. This behavior is dependent on the underlying secrets manager.

## Examples

### Store a new secret value

```javascript
import { secret } from '@nitric/sdk'

const keyRef = secret('apiKey').allow('put')

await keyRef.put('6c3199a3-094e-4797-bfc9-9ee2a7839286')
```

### Get the id of a new secret version

Calling `put()` returns a promise to a reference to the new secret version. Storing the ID of the new version can be useful if you need to retrieve that specific value again in future using [version.access()](./secret-version-access)

```javascript
import { secret } from '@nitric/sdk'

const keyRef = secret('apiKey').allow('put')

const newApiKeyVersionRef = await keyRef.put(
  '6c3199a3-094e-4797-bfc9-9ee2a7839286',
)

const versionId = newApiKeyVersionRef.version
```
